Gourdough's Big Fat Doughnuts

So for Laura's birthday, instead of making her a cake, Hunter and I took her to a food trailer in South Austin called Gourdough's (Gourmet Doughnuts, get it? So clever). It is basically Austin's answer to Portland's Voodoo Donuts; the difference is that each donut is made fresh, and they're huge. We were a little bit overzealous and ordered eight massive donuts between the three of us. The people working there thought we were insane, but it was one of the best decisions we've ever made. Here's the rundown:

Sara's Joy:
This one is coconut flavored filling with fudge icing and fresh coconut on top. I'm not usually a big coconut fan, though I'm coming around, but this was awesome.

Cherry Bombs:
These little bites of heaven are glazed cherry-topped donut holes with cinnamon, sugar, and cake mix topping. It's essentially crazy good cherry pie.

Baby Rattler:

This dude is a normal donut with fudge icing and a three foot long gummy rattlesnake atop chocolate fudge Oreo cookies. In case you think I'm exaggerating about the length of gummy goodness:

Blackout:

One of my choices!! It's a brownie batter donut covered in fudge icing with chocolate chips and brownie bites on top. Ridiculous.

The Puddin' and Granny's Pie:

I'll admit I ate neither of these b/c they both have bananas (my archenemy). The puddin' one is the first photo. It's cream filled with cream cheese icing, bananas, and vanilla wafers. Granny's pie has caramel, pecans, bananas, and graham crackers. Hunter and Laura both say that Granny's pie is tops.

Mama's Cake:
This was another of my choices and my second favorite of the group. It's yellow cake batter filling with chocolate fudge icing. Mmmm.

Mother Clucker:

One of the best things ever to have been eaten by humankind. This is essentially why I went here in the first place. It's a donut with fried chicken and honey butter, not too dissimilar from chicken and waffles. It's well worth visiting Austin for, if any of you want to come see me.

These photos from my phone don't nearly do the donuts justice, but it'll have to do. We gorged ourselves and still have 80 percent leftover for tomorrow, thank god.